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16. I had arrived at the airport about 30 minutes before the check in．It had been a very busy three days for me with lots of meetings．So I was glad to have the ________ time to make my notes on what I needed to do the following day，but suddenly the announcement came that my flight had to be delayed．
As I sat waiting for my _______to be called，I reflected on my last meeting of the day．It was not a business meeting but rather a very enjoyable ________ with an old business friend I had not seen for over 12 years．Our lunch was spent recalling times gone by ________ filling each other in what had happened in our lives over the last 12 years．We both laughed and smiled as we ________ the good times and the great experiences we had shared together．
It was great to have this additional time to replay in my mind what we had talked about．I realized just how important it was to have regular ________ of the good times in our life．I was ________enough to have had the chance to take a short break and look back on the good things that had happened in my life．It was somewhat like looking at an old photo album ________ in a cupboard in your house．There before your eyes are lots of wonderful memories that take you back to times and places，and most importantly to those people who are in the ________ ．
My flight home was finally called three hours later．I smiled as I ________ the plane and realized that I was not at all ________ about the delay in the flight，as I had been able to spend the time reflecting on the good times from days gone by．
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
One day, as I was getting into my car, a woman stopped beside me and asked if I was going north. I wasn’t I asked her where she wanted to go. She told me that she had her bus and had to walk. I her to get in and said I would be happy to take her.
As I started , I thought to myself, “I am not in a ,” so I asked the lady what her ________destination was. She was going to work and was running . So I told her that I would ________ to drive her to work so that she wouldn’t be late! “I can’t you are doing this,” she said. “This is such a ________ gift. I just moved here three weeks ago and you are so ________ !”
As we near the office ________ where she worked, I ________ she put her hand into her bag for something. I asked her what she was ________ . She said, “I must have ________ my lunch bag at home.” I had just bought my ________ . “Here’s a lunch,” I said as I gave her a ________ and handed her my bag from the back seat.
She gave me a hug as she got out of the ________ . She said, “My husband died a few months ago and this is a sign that things will be ________ for me. Thank you.” I drove back home with my ________ singing and a big smile on my face!
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
At the end of 2014, Tulsa, Oklahoma, sixthgrade teacher Melissa Bour received a friend ____ on Facebook from one of her students. She didn’t accept the request, but a quick browse through the girl’s friends list revealed the names of dozens of kids from her ____. Many of the students’ Facebook pages were completely ____， meaning even strangers could ____ the kids’ personal photos and messages.
“I saw middle fingers, students dressed inappropriately, and extremely ____ language，” Melissa says. “It was ____．” When she brought up her ____ in class, the students were not ____ at all. So she created a ____ of her own. With a bright green marker pen, she wrote on a piece of paper: “Dear Facebook: my 12yearold students think it is ‘no ____’ that they are posting pictures of themselves... Please help me show them how ____ their images can get around.” She put a picture of the letter on her Facebook page and asked people to ____ it.
In hours, it was shared 108，000 times across dozens of states and four countries. She ____ it after eight hours, but it continued to spread. “I wanted to ____ them that it’s on the Internet forever，” she says.
As she explained the results of her ____ in class, the students’ eyes got bigger and bigger. “It scared a few of them into deleting their pages ____，” she says. Others have removed inappropriate posts and used privacy settings to ____ their pages.
Her ____ wasn’t to scare them off social media but to push them to be ____ of what they post. Melissa says, “I tell them, ‘It doesn’t ____ you have to just because everyone else is sharing.’”
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Several times my daughter Carolyn had telephoned to say, “Mother, you must come to see the daffodils (黄水仙) ________ they are over.” I wanted to go, but it was a long drive from my home. “ I will come next Tuesday，” I ________ , a little hesitantly, on her third call.
Next Tuesday I drove there. When I finally ________ Carolyn’s house and hugged my grandchildren, I said, “________ the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in the fog, and there is ________ in the world except you and these children that I want to see badly enough to drive ________ inch！”
My daughter smiled and said, “You will never forgive yourself if you ________ the chance of seeing the beautiful flowers.”
So we drove there. After twenty minutes on the highway we ________onto a small road and I saw a small church. There we got out of the car. I ________Carolyn down the path. As I turned a ________ of the path, I looked up and gasped. Before me lay the most glorious ________ . There were five acres of flowers. It looked ________ someone had taken ________ gold and poured it down ________ the mountain peak and slopes.
“Who planted all these?” I asked Carolyn.
“It’s ________ one woman,” Carolyn answered. “That’s her home,” Carolyn ________ a cottage .We walked up to the house. On the patio(露台), we saw a ________ .
There it was: “ The Daffodil Principe:1. 50,000 bulbs(球茎). 2. One at a time, by one woman. 3.________ in 1958.”
For me that moment was a life-changing________.I thought of this woman whom I had ________ met and who had begun one bulb at a time to bring the beauty and joy to an unknown mountaintop.
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A, B, C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We waiters need to face all kinds of customers every day. When something goes wrong, we should have the ability to keep on going and ________ the customers.
I remember my first job was at a fine restaurant. One day, the manager informed all the cooks and ________ that a VIP group were coming for ________ ．The group were VIPs in the city's restaurants Indus ________ 10 people.
After they arrived, we let them get ________ comfortably and drinks were ordered. ________ , the head waiter would be the person in ________ of wine service. However, the manager asked me to serve that noon. I had never served a group of 10, ________had I done wine service.
When it's turn to ________ one of the wine glasses in front of a young woman, somehow I lost my trip(抓）and the other ________ fell on top of her, and then to the floor and ________ in pieces. I felt ________and apologized many times to the woman and to the rest of the group.
Quickly, the manager ________ my aid, helped in the clean-up, and sent out their ________right away. The group forgave me and the young woman repeatedly informed me it's OK.
________ on that day, my manager told me, "Mistakes and ________ do happen. If you know why they happened, learn from it and move on, ________ you still have a table to serve. Keep your head up and be confident. The glasses are ________．"
I understand why he was truly a well respectable restaurant manager within our ________ ．His close relationship with the group made the situation calm and the group ________ me for that.
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
I was a single parent of four small children, working at a low-paid job. But I didn’t want my children to know we were poor, so when Christmas was drawing near, I decided to give them some money to buy some .
They planned weeks ahead of time, asking what they wanted for Christmas. Luckily, I had saved＄120 for __ to share by all five of us.The big arrived. I gave each kid a twenty-dollar bill and them to look for gifts of about four dollars each. Then everyone scattered(散开).We had two hours to shop, then we would back at the “Santa’s Workshop”.
Driving home, everyone was in high Christmas spirits, my younger daughter, Ginger, who was unusually .She had only one small, flat bag with a few candies, fifty-cent candies! I was so angry, but I didn’t say anything we got home. I called her into my bedroom and closed the door,________to be angry again. This is what she told me.
“I was looking ________ thinking of what to buy, and I ________ to read the little cards on the ‘Giving Trees’. One was for a little girl, four years old, and all she ________ for Christmas was a doll（玩具娃娃）.So I took the card off the tree and ________ the doll for her. We have so much and she doesn’t have anything.”
I never felt so ________ as I did that day.
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